Tuesday, May 21, 2019

OPINION_ Americans, take note: Aussies just rejected futile, hair-shirt environmentalism

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Americans, take note: Aussies just rejected futile, hair-shirt environmentalism


by Washington Examiner
| May 21, 2019 12:00 AM


Over the weekend, Australians reelected their conservative government against all expectations. The race, like many that have taken place in the United States in the last 20 years, illustrated that voters’ very real concern for the environment doesn’t translate to support for environmentalists.

Yes, everyone wants a clean environment. But that doesn’t mean they will accept the crazed policies of today’s green Left, which views the planet’s supposedly imminent demise as a good excuse to impose socialism.

Australia’s Labor Party campaigned heavily on higher taxes and cuts to greenhouse emissions. Their program was typical of such a platform, involving higher energy prices, huge subsidies for unproven and politically favored forms of green power, and inevitable cutbacks in economically sustainable manufacturing and mining that currently sustain many jobs.

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READ MORE: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/americans-take-note-aussies-just-rejected-futile-hair-shirt-environmentalism

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In reelecting their conservative government and rejecting an environmentalist scare campaign, Australians did not deny that man-made global warming is real. Rather, they chose against a national policy of pointlessly wearing hair shirts to exhibit their anguish about it.

And good for them.

As American voters weigh policies such as the Green New Deal, they would be wise to take a lesson from their friends Down Under.


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